Improved eailway-ohaie



ARoUL-n ELMS, 0F NORTH GRANVILLE, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 76,062, dated i/Iaeh 31, 1868.

IMPROVED RAILWAYLGHAIB..

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T0 ALL WHOM lIT MAY CON CERN:

Be it known that I, ABCULE ELMS, of North Granville, in thecounty ofW-ashington, and State o'fNew York, have invented new and. useful Improvements in Railroad-Chairs; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a ii'ull7 clear,'a.nd exact description thereof, which will enable those skilledin the art to make and use the saule, reference being had-to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specifica-tion, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention.

`Figure 2 is a-bottom view of the same.

VFigure 3 is a cross-section through the line a: cv, fig. 2l

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to the manner of fastening the two parte' of a railroad-chair together, as will he more fully set forth inthe following.. In the accompanying plate of drawingsg A A are the rails, the-ends meeting, asshown.- The chair is composed of two parts, B B', each part being provided with hook projections, a d', as shown. The widthbetween-the said hooks is sucient to admit their entering upon one another, as shown, and when so locked or clamped together, a space, b, will be left between i them. The faces of contactz'zfare tapering, for -the purpose of drawing the two lparts of the chair-together,

and thereby clamping the ends of the rails. Each part of the chair contains upon its upper surface a curved projection, as' shown at` dzand d', that at d being lower than the other, for the-purpose of permitting the Bange of the .car-wheel to pass. i

This invention is simple and effective, and chairs so constructed will be found durable, and not liable to -become loose.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pateritv Forming the chair' for railroad-rails in two parts, B and B', which are drawn and held together by their hooks: a a substantially as shown and described, for the purpose of clamping and holdingthe'rails A, all as set forth.`

ARCULE" EL'MS.

Witnesses:

ERNEST LANoU, CHAs. H. GRANT. 

